Fonta, William M.; Ayuk, Elias T.; Chukwu, Jude O.; Onyukwu, Onyukwu E.; Agu, Cletus C.; Umenwa, Innocent O.(SAGE Publications, 2015)
The study findings show inflowing remittances to Nigeria are used primarily to subsidize households’ consumption, education and health expenditures. The paper discusses and analyzes the remittance environment, its economic ...
Fonta, William M.; Nwosu, Emmanuel O.; Thfiam, Djiby R.; Ayuk, Elias T.(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-01-08)
Households that receive remittances invest more in building, land acquisitions and household businesses than non-recipient households. There is a dearth of micro-level evidence in sub-Saharan African (SSA) concerning these ...
Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly; Golub, Stephen; Gueye, Fatou(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2020-07-03)
While the duality of African economies is well recognized in economic literature, only a few comprehensive studies have examined the formal and informal economies using the same instruments. The research presented in this ...
Follow me as I showcase our field activities in Dar es Salaam. My team and I had the opportunity to visit different parts of the city and see (first-hand) the energy use realities and needs of residents. This was definitely ...
The main challenges facing extension services and the use of ICT is the limited budget and the diversity of farmers with respect to farming systems, literacy and age. Moreover, some areas lack the tools to use ICT (such ...
Through this project Red Sur and its partners implemented cutting-edge, regional and multi-countries' research that informed the policy agenda not only to foster SMEs development, but also quality job creation by considering ...
Espino, Alma; Salvador, Soledad(Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo-Uruguay (CIEDUR), Montevideo, UY, 2016-10)
Neste relatório, analisa-se o esforço que oito países
latino-americanos dedicaram à projeção de políticas públicas
que visam enfrentar as conseqüências de uma das
mudanças mais significativas das últimas décadas no
mercado ...
Espino, Alma; Salvador, Soledad(Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo-Uruguay (CIEDUR), Montevideo, UY, 2016-10)
Este documento apresenta os principais resultados de uma pesquisa realizada em oito países da América
Latina sobre as restrições que operam no vínculo das mulheres com o mercado de trabalho: os avanços na
sua inserção e ...
Espino, Alma; Salvador, Soledad(Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo-Uruguay (CIEDUR), Montevideo, UY, 2016-10)
Policies that do not include a gender perspective lead to persistence in labor discrimination and deepening of social inequalities. This report analyzes efforts in the design of public policies from eight countries in Latin ...
Espino, Alma; Salvador, Soledad(Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo-Uruguay (CIEDUR), Montevideo, UY, 2016-10)
This document presents the main results of a research carried out in eight Latin American countries on the
restrictions women find in the labor market: progress made regarding their insertion and laws penalizing
discriminatory ...
Espino, Alma; Salvador, Soledad(Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo-Uruguay (CIEDUR), Montevideo, UY, 2016-10)
En este informe se analiza el esfuerzo puesto en el diseño de
las políticas públicas de ocho países de América Latina para
enfrentar las consecuencias de uno de los cambios más
significativos de las últimas décadas en ...
Espino, Alma; Salvador, Soledad(Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo-Uruguay (CIEDUR), Montevideo, UY, 2016-10)
En este documento se presentan los principales resultados de una investigación realizada en ocho países
de América Latina sobre las restricciones que operan en el vínculo de las mujeres con el mercado laboral:
los avances ...
Vargas-Garcia, Alejandra(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2016)
The checklist is meant to help teams producing briefs to have a fresh look at their output with a critical eye for the content, language and consideration of key audiences, and process, which includes copyediting. The ...
There is a growing body of climate-related policy in
India; at the same time, there is no clear and consistent
approach or framework that directs and guides these
efforts. In this paper, we propose and develop a
methodology ...
Yate Cortes, Stephania(Los Andes University, 2014)
This paper evaluates how different entities, both national and international, interact with the design of indicators, and how the Colombian Constitutional Court promotes the use of indicator tools to assess government ...
Dubash, Navroz K.; Joseph, Neha B.(Climate Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, IN, 2014-12)
This study supports an institutional design that mainstreams climate policy, which is integrated into development planning. Over the period covered by this paper, from 2007 to mid-2014, there has been a steady and growing ...
En el presente estudio se describe, sin pretensión de exhaustividad, el marco normativo, institucional y procedimental, de la lucha contra la corrupción en el Perú, desde un plano penal y administrativo. Asimismo, se ...